Chapter 4: Butterfly's Realm
Part two:
I'm free.. at last...
Words.. words so mythical and divine escaped Hollie's voice. The floor began to shake as she embraced herself... wait.. not herself.. she wasn't her anymore. It's as if she was erased out in this world.
The girl figure stood as her hair flows vividly yet dangerously all over the place, growing inch by inch in a matter of seconds. Her body was giving off hot sensation and in a blink of an eye, a different girl stood there... giving off such an evil aura.
This garden... it's dead...
She looked around, searching every corners her eyes set upon. This place was different from the last time she had wondered here. Tears sprang up to her eyes to see her friends rotted and lying everywhere in the place. She walked shakily trying to get different views of what was once her home. She then tripped over a lump of roots, the hour glass still emitting such a green evil impression.
"Of course... their inhabitants were visited by the angel of death the moment you left" someone called behind her.
"Who are you?" she asked. Looking back, she saw a girl wearing a rich divine clothing of a priestess, along with luxurious jewels.
"I'm a dream-gazer sent by my mother to aid you," she answered, refusing to give her personal information.
The new Hollie looked through the mirror the girl was holding. There, she saw her reflection, the original Hollie, sleeping through the clouds of confusion and fear. Her chest was glowing a crimson red, on the area of the bitten mark and where her heart lies.
"Sadness isn't it. She is very fragile," the dream-gazer said.
"That's Hollie isn't it, the one in the mirror" she asked, still sitting on the dried garden.
"Quite close. She's not in the mirror, she's within yourself. As a body who shares two souls at once. It may seem unreal but it's possible," she stated, a twinkle in her eyes glowered.
Wind picked up and all the dead leaves started dancing in such a sad moment. She then once again sprang up to tears.
"You shouldn't waste your tears on situations easy to resolve," she commented.
"How.."
"Each of the Divine Butterfly's soul were reborn in this world. They reside to those who are mournful," she explained.
"So.. to-"
"To save them... you must fufill the person's wish and that mournful soul will leave. Then purify the soul and then a butterfly will be born."
"I see-"
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"Hollie! Wake up!" Chloe screeched on her ear.
"Wha? What!" Hollie sprang up.
She looked around groggily and immediately landed her head back up the pillow. She was too tired to see thirteen pairs of eyes starring at her. Thirteen means not a good sign.
"Hollie! Listen.. last night Dark-"
"Alright honey... time for you to go!" Riku sweetly said, dragging all the unwanted visitor around Hollie's room.
"Hollie, Hollie .. listen!" Ryu said excitedly as he grabbed her face towards his own. Out of nowhere, a broken hand came out and she started freaking over such a really disgusting and frightful object.
"Ryu, Daisuke, Kosuke.. OUT!" the girls yelled.
"Huh? I didn't even do anything.." Daisuke and Kosuke wondered.. as Ryu still clutches the object... content that he teased her already on the first day.
"Honey, is anything wrong?" Emiko asked.
"Nothing grandma..."
"But then she's already at that state where..."
"But, honey, you saw for yourself..."
"Saw what, grandma?"
"Riku honey, this isn't right..."
"Mommy, it's ok.. maybe it'll.."
"Be quiet!" Hollie yelled. But the two adults kept on talking anyways. She then spotted a flower bouquette.
She silently went off her bed, escaping out of the weird conversation she was kicked out, walked like an octopus to the flower and grabbed it, banged it on the wall hoping some pathetic guy would come out and listen to her troubled, boring life.
"There's something wrong with this millenium I tell you.." she thought to herself.
Millenium... Milleniu... Millenia... Millania.. Melania!
Suddenly, jigsaw puzzles started to reform. Bits by bits, her memories are showing clearly. She remembered a voice.. so different from hers coming out of her mind demanding a release. Release of who? The next pieces were foggy.. she saw a girl in a kimono.. dream-gazer was it? and she utterly look so familiar. Oh yes! It was Misha Hinoto, was it? And then mournful soul? What?
"Hollie Harada Niwa!" Riku yelled.
"Yes, mother," she suddenly became attentive.
"Go back to bed honey. Have plenty of sleep," Emiko said, giving her a tiny smile.
"Thank you," she said and went back to sleep.
Save me
A picture of a blonde victorian doll appeared on her mind. She was very pretty and in her hand was a ring in a form of the rose..
"RYU!" she yelled, running down the halls of the mansion, desperately looking for her brother.
"What?" he answered.
"Where's that hand?" she asked, breathing in deeply.
Ryu touched her hand, to check her pulse and then replied, "What hand? And don't go running at the speed of a turtle, you'll kill yourself."
"Haha, very funny. Give me the hand!" she threatened.
"What hand? I don't remember," a very confused boy asked.
"Sigh.. broken arm of a doll, flickering it right my face, has like tiny frilly lace clothing..," she described as she finally remembered the same contents back in that garden.
"Oh that?" he asked.
"Wow, you finally remembered!"
"I threw it of the garbage."
"YOU WHAT!"
She then ran off to the specific garbage on Ryu's intructions and grabbed it.
"Why is she so into some really gruesome hand?"
(Beats me! Let's go outside..)
Ryu once again looked back to see his sister flailing her arms, running off to somewhere again. All he saw was a girl running at a speed of light, going to that same path she had ran off to last night. It was quite unbelievable how a girl can run so fast if it's really important.
There were construction everywhere around the place and all she saw that the garden was all.. well... all gone.
"NOOO!" she screamed in uther frustration and shockness.
Everyone suddenly looked at her as she quickly blocked the path before they do anymore serious damage. The only thing left is the shrine looking thing and the same lump she had tripped over last night. She threatened everyone that she was going to kill herself if they don't leave immediately and after that, she collapsed. YOU HEAR? She collapsed!
(Your sister collapsed! Again! Is she that meekly!)
"Hey, don't you insult her! She was born that way.."
(Why?)
"Mother fell when she had her. She's lucky to be born with no deviation.. but then her heart was affected by it. Too much shock from the fall I guess,"
(Wow.. now I know why you're soo sister-complexed!)
"Take that back!"
"You're talking to yourself?" Sephen asked, having a weird expression in his face.
"Uh.. no.. just testing out scientific theories and such.. gotta go!"
"Yo, how's she?"
"I don't know you guys.."
"Yeah.. sure.. cousin! And make sure you tell that person you were talking to to enjoy his last freedom.."
"Yeah, sure I.. watcha talking about?"
"Nothing.."
"What weirdos!"
(Those guys.. they look like Hiwatari..)
"Yeah.. their my cousins-"
(But the Hiwatari are our enemy)
"That's good."
"What! So then that means.. half of my family is against me.. I mean you.. I mean both of us.. NO!"
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"Honey, did you hear? You gotta steal that painting.. there.. there.. THERE! LOOK WHEN I'M POINTING!" Emiko screeched, hyped up about the fact that she found another piece of art for him to steal. She was already all over the news pointing the new painting that was currently displayed and yes, she wanted it to put in her room for luxury.
"Buy a copy if you want it so much-"
Ryu looked at her mother and grandmother's teary puppied eyes. They were expecting for the painting to be in their house in the secret room and to have it decorated like a piece of furniture.
"You can't escape this one, Ryu. You have to get it because it possess an evil inside. You have to seal it,"
"MORNING! What are you guys talking about? I heard 'stealing'" Hollie asked, prepared and ready to leave the house for school. It was such a disastrous day yesterday yet she still has the will to attend class.
"Nothing!" everyone said in unison.
"Ok then... bye bye!" she said cheerfully and left.
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"Hello!" she said cheerfully in everyone she passed by.
"Hollie! He's coming, he's coming!" someone yelled from behind.
"Who is coming Chloe?" she asked.
"No duh! Listen to the news! Anyways, Dark's coming to steal the Blue Cherryblossom painting! The one our classmate worked hard to make," she said in full information.
"Blue Cherryblossom? the one made by Eliza-kun?" she asked.
"Yeah! It was placed in that rich house for goodluck right? Now, they are moving it to the museum so they can guard it!"
"They shouldn't have done that..."
"Why?"
"Because... it's really disrespectful for the owner of the painting."
Hollie and Chloe looked behind to see a girl in brown hair and same school uniform, hair grazing along with the wind as cherry blossom petals swirls around her.
"That's the transferred student, Hollie," Chloe whispered to her friend.
"Aren't you Misha?" she asked, her mind trailing to the scene last night once again.
Misha gave a smile and asked for a bond of friendship, which of course Hollie and Chloe accepted in a matter of second.
"Meet me at your locker after school," Misha said and went off to her class which is the Middle High school area.
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""Dark's coming to town!" Jake sang merrily as the group of boys sat in the trees to eat their lunch.
"Don't make it like he's santa claus!"
"Why not?" Jake said teary.
"Geez, you act like a kid!"
"Can't help it," he said happily as he peeled off the cover of jello-pudding.
"Alright, why are you excited?"
"Because, tonight, I'll catch him!" he said, "and, I get to meet a new thief!"
"Great, now my bestfriend's after my butt too!"
"You looking solemn today," Haru said.
"Yeah.. it's because of the pain- I mean.. Hollie," Ryu quickly answered.
"Hmm.. yeah... it's sad," he responded.
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"Alright," Hollie said to Misha when she requested if she can meet Eliza-kun today.
After school, Hollie, Chloe, Misha and Eliza where sitting in the park where Daisuke usually sit to draw his scenes. They started eating first and then got down to business.
"Are you sure you're ok with that Eliza?" Chloe asked, worried about her painting dedicated to her grandma who suddenly passed away last year.
"Yeah," she sighed, "I have to protect it right? It's the only memory I have with my grandmother..." she said as a tear sprang up to her eye.
"This is sad. Her only memory of her grandmother is going to be stolen. Yet, wasn't it already stolen when they took it from her posession?" Hollie thought.
"Sad, isn't it?" Misha whispered back, "can you come with me tonight at around 7:30?"
"What for?" she asked.
"It's something you must know-"
"I see. alright then" she agreed cheerfully.
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That night, Hollie ran out from the window of her cousin's house (you know why) and met up with Misha in the same place where they had gathered after school. As usual, she was standing there casually, but her hair was back to its original state. Eliza was there as well.
"Ok?"
"Hollie, I want you to fully understand," Misha started.
"I don't want the painting to be taken away! I want it in my hands!" Eliza devastatedly said, grabbing Hollie and burrying herself in her.
"But, the police will make sure it's not taken! My cousin's are also there and Jake too! I think they can handle-"
"You don't understand, Hollie. Eliza really want it in her possession. You should try to hear her side of the story first," Misha softly said.
"Alright. I guess you want the full story. I painted my grandmother one time behind a blue cherry blossom background to represent her calmness and long life with love. Then after the art exhibition in our school, these people came and asked my if they can borrow my painting for a reception on their daughter's wedding. I gladly said yes if it will make the new bride happy. Yet, after I signed the contract, they told me that the painting belonged to them. I was tricked. Now, they are making copies of it to make money! I don't care now if Dark steals it... he can steal it and put an end to this. I never painted my grandmother for that..." she cried, explaining her sadness over a painting.
"I never knew... I thought that.. everyone said that you sold it to make money-"
"She's not that kind of person Hollie. She cherished it that she even wants it to be taken away so that they can stop abusing it"
"What do you expect me to do?"
"Leave it to me" she said to Eliza as her and and her other.
Misha and Hollie ran off as Eliza went back home. Behind a tree beside the museum, Hollie transformed to the same girl she had taken form of last night.
"I sent out the card that you're taking the painting early this morning," Misha announced to her as they sat in the tallest tree, looking at the museum window.
"Huh? you did? How'd you know I would-"
"Let me explain myself to you properly," she said, calmly closing her eyes and suddenly turning into a beautiful maiden that camouflage beautifully among the cherry blossom, "I am Misha Hinoto. The daughter of the famous dream-gazer, Hinoto-hime. I have the power to look at the future.. both positive and negative, all path open to the person I wish to seek upon."
" And your here for that girl I turned to, aren't you," she asked, quite depressed.
"You and her. Your souls were transformed to one when you where at the age of three. Beside, you have something I can't quite put my finger to what it is, but I have a feeling it's really important," Misha said.
"Alright, it's eight o'clock. I guess I have to go," she said as she took a deep breath, "Wish me luck!"
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"Alright folks! Tonight is the night where we expect to see our thief back in action as well as a new challenger! Can he make it?"
All reporters, witnesses and policemen are ramaging everywhere before the second hand strike to the VIII roman number on the clock tower. When the clock did strike 8, everyone quickly looked at the sky for signs of their appearances. Dark showed up as usual in his balck wings and stood at the rooftop of the museum.
"Look at the people Ryu! It grew in numbers!"
"No duh, Dark! Population grows!"
"So are my fans!" Dark said happily.
He stood there as he waited for this new thief as well. After a couple of minutes later, he was running around the museum to get the painting. Policemen were chasing him and such and such. Even Jake was after him! He entered the room and there.. standing infront of the large painting was two boys, one blue-haired and the other brunette. They turned around to stare at him with golden eyes.
"Well, hello Dark!" they both welcomed.
"Omg! It's my cousins! Why do they have yellow eyes?"
"Shit! Krad had taken both of them? How's that possible?"
"What? You mean.. those two twins becomes Krad? TWO KRAD? WE ARE DEAD!" Ryu yelled as he started praying for mercy.
The twins, half their self, half Krad, launched at Dark and surrounded him, pinning him against the wall.
"Are you always pinned by guys?"
"Be quite! I never asked you to ask me questions at the time like this," he said back as he called upon Wizu to cause distraction.
"It won't work Dark, I know that technique. Wizu, is currently caged though... too bad!" both said in unison as they showed dark Wizu really locked up in the cage.
"This is too easy," she thought, as she moved freely around, her butterfly shadow fluttering and following her to their destinated section of the museum.
Once they got into the room, she quickly studied the painting without bothering much about Krads's and Dark's "making-out" and realized that it wasn't the right painting.Wizu noticed the butterfly on the floor and made a loud noise to attract the attention of his master. Once Krad and Dark were at full attention, Wizu quickly point his cute hand towards the girl who was right on top of the ceiling, above them.
"Busted-" she thought as she quickly summoned the butterfly which became her wings quickly and she started heading towards the window. She was out of sight after sending a knife that quickly unlocks the cage of Wizu. She thought it was too cute to be locked up.
Dark quickly threw the both of Krad and also summoned Wizu to fly off after the girl, the painting forgotten in his mind.
After flying a couple of miles, both of them landed on a mansion and she disappeared quickly, into the house.
"What she doing here?"
"Beats me... but I have to know her!"
Gun shots were heard all over the place as body guards shoots towards both thief. Dark was quick but the other thief was shot on her left arm with the laser beams when she almost has gotten the painting.
"look Dark, isn't that the same painting in the museum,"
"Why didn't I see it sooner! This is the original copy!"
"Got it!" she exclaimed and flew off. Dark trailed after her.
Somewhere near another house, Dark caught the thief and cornered her in a cherry blossom tree.
"Alright... hand the painting," he said.
"I'll give it to you once I'm done with it," she said as she jumped on top of the tree, "This won't be the last time will meet though, Dark!"
The card Dark accidentally took from one of the twins was brought up to his hand. It says in glowing font, GEM.
"Her name is Gem?"
"I guess so.. aurgh! I can't believe I lost!"
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"Here you go," Gem said, handing the original copy to Eliza.
Eliza looked at the painting and her eyes grew wide. She was happy because the painting was back in her position and was also shocked to see Gem covered in blood and bruises.
"Your arm.."
"It's ok, nothing too serious was done," she assured as she clutched the aching pain.
"Thank you so much Gem," Eliza said, as tears comes out of her eyes.
She closed her eyes and suddenly, her chest started glowing. The heart of the painting also started glowing. Then two butterflies came out of each and directly came to Gem.
"The butterfly souls that was inside Eliza's pain and the painting's life. You resurrected them," Misha said from behind.
"Yeah... that's a nice start to rebuild my home,"
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That morning, Ryu woke up to see a painting covered in ribbon beside his bed. Gem's note was in it saying.
---Flash Back---
"Eliza-kun, thank you for the painting," Gem said.
"No problem. You deserve it after what you have done for me. It's the least I can do," she said.
"What do we do with the painting?"
"Give it to someone who wants it," Gem said.
"And I know the perfect guy, Dark," Misha said.
Mickiz Notes:
It took soo long! I can't believe this story's taking five pages to complete! Hopefully, it will stop becoming so long! I broke my promise of completing it that day.. but yeah.. I got too lazy and down until I read Miss Silent-insaneminako's review! Dozen thanks for encouraging me!
Other people to thank:
cosmos star, kirei, joz dizturbed, White Kitsune Youkai, zafaraamy, all souls day, and the shadow alchemist! Thanx very much for making my day everytime I updated. Hope you guys have fun reading my chapters and thank you for supporting my story!
Next Chapter:
Roses of Victory
Summary: Ryu has fallen in love with a girl and now Dark and Ryu are on bad terms! Misha continue to search for lost butterfly souls and Hollie's rage up to find that doll she lost 9 yrs. ago in that garden. Can the story be wackier than ever?
"This time, this jewel is mine!"
Disclaimer:
I don't own Dn Angel. The rest are mine though...
P.S: Hinoto belongs to the story x/1999 by Clamp and hope that you give full respect as I have done.
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Yours truly,
Mickiz